William Heinemann Ltd, London, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. List of illustrations, acknowledgements, suggested reading list, moments in twentieth-century Iranian history and glossary. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Photographic paperback binding with peach, pale yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and light pink and white coloured titles to the back strip. Azar Nafisi, author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution. -- rear panel blurb. Minor rubbing of the books' edges and panels with a little age toning of the text block edges and pages. Size: Trade Paperback. 336 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Iran; Genealogy & Local History. ISBN: 0434014044. ISBN/EAN: 9780434014040. Inventory No: 0287758. . 9780434014040

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Azar Nafisi is a visiting professor and the director of the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She has taught Western literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University, and the University of Allameh Tabatabai in Iran. In 1981 she was expelled from the University of Tehran after refusing to wear the veil. In 1994 she won a teaching fellowship from Oxford University, and in 1997 she and her family left Iran for America. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal , and The New Republic and has appeared on countless radio and television programs. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children. From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0287758
Title: Things I've Been Silent About; Memories
Author: NAFISI, AZAR
Format/Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Condition
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0434014044
ISBN 13: 9780434014040
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2009
Keywords: BZDB2 Nafisi, Azar -- Family, Women college teachers -- Iran -- Biography, College teachers -- Iran -- Biography, Mothers and daughters -- Iran -- Biography, Women -- Iran -- Social conditions, Iran -- Social conditions -- 1979-1997 Biography & Autob

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